129 days.
Niou wonders if dying is like sleeping. You lie there and wait, knowing it's going to come, but when it does you cannot remember when it happened. It just comes all of the sudden, like a shadow takes over your mind and you cannot remember. Only with death it's much more permanent.
His phone beeps. Marui.
whadup?
youre lame
you are too
nothing
huh?
nothings up
im reading a new book
what?
edgar allan poe
stop reading depressing crap
its not healthy
and no cancer jokes
but i like it
coming over with chocolate to watch firefly and DW
stop being sad
be happy damn it
When Marui walks through his doors, Niou is so unexplainably happy that it hurts. Perhaps dying is easy, like being happy and falling in love, or maybe it's hard, like what comes after being happy and falling in love.